Author: Stephen Pickering
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New American Poem: Stay Composed
“Stay Composed” There’s something so deep in my heart in each cell of me, swimming along this river of the night so dark, speaking to another century. I am the hand that swims through your sea for some missing piece of gold. I am the rose that blooms from your seed In a deep, hidden…
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Michigan
I recently made two different covers of the Josh Rouse song, “Michigan.” The first I made on the iPad with Garageband. I played the Spanish guitar and sang into the the little pinhole microphone. Then I added some “smart” instruments, bass, drums. So this one is done basically in “click” time, but I still think…
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The Difference Between Rackspace Cloud Sites and Cloud Servers
This has been on my mind for some time, as I am a customer and reseller of Cloud Sites. I think the simple explanation is like how Steve Jobs explained the difference between Desktops and tablets: “Trucks vs. Cars.” Cloud Sites, while being very powerful and very scalable, are more for serving content. This blog…
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How to End Inflation Once and For All
In Response to this blog post “Why Coke Cost a Nickel for 70 Years” I wrote this comment: “Same reason the price of oil was basically the same from 1920-1970, even through the invention of automobiles and Jet Airplanes! It’s because Nixon closed the London Gold window in 1971. That’s the whole and only reason…
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The Government Was the Cause of the Financial Meltdown of 2008
There were three causes, and all were the government driven: The Congress – The Community Re-investment Act. This is what gets me: Everyone thinks it was lack of regulation that caused it. The regulation in the form of this act forced them to lend to everyone and everybody! I mean how much more ironic can…